MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, today introduced the Egnyte Context Layer, a business context foundation that maps relationships across content, people, projects, business systems, and organizational knowledge. This gives AI agents a purpose-built context map upfront, eliminating redundant processing and reducing costs while helping them deliver more accurate, relevant outcomes faster. The Egnyte Context Layer powers task-based agents across workflows, including industry-specific workflows across financial services, life sciences, media and entertainment, and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).
At Autodesk University in Las Vegas, Egnyte will demonstrate how this comes to life for AEC firms, showing new capabilities that enrich the Context Layer and what becomes possible when AI starts with a deep understanding of the business.
“AI shouldn’t have to rediscover your business every time you ask a question,” said Amrit Jassal, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Egnyte. “By mapping context across all of your documents and systems upfront, the Egnyte Context Layer gives AI agents a permanent foundation to act on immediately. This eliminates redundant token costs and delivers more accurate, trustworthy results that scale without compromising security.”
As Egnyte already sits on top of an organization’s most critical data, the Context Layer extends that foundation, mapping relationships and organization-specific knowledge so that the agents built are working with specific context needed to do their jobs. Starting with a unique context map, AI can work from current, relevant information, while respecting existing permissions and governance, so that it only accesses the information each user is permitted to access.
The Context Layer builds on Egnyte’s AI-powered workflow automation announcement in August, moving the platform from automating individual tasks to powering more accurate, connected AI agents across critical workflows.
How the Context Layer Works:
- Build business understanding from content: Unstructured content becomes enriched with metadata, classifications, user relationships, and organization-specific knowledge. Relationships are then mapped across systems and activities to provide context for the tasks at hand.
- Give AI agents the right context for the task: A unique context map is created based on the job each agent is designed to perform. With live connections to content and systems, as information and relationships change, so does the way the agent reacts.
- Operate within your existing environment: Trusted context is available across Egnyte AI, task-based agents and workflows, and external connected AI platforms via MCP, allowing work within the existing access controls and governance.
The Context Layer in Action: AEC at Autodesk University
AEC firms manage massive volumes of content and data across projects, but AI hasn’t been able to effectively use that information without understanding the context behind a drawing, spec, RFI, contract, or submittal. It needs to know how it relates to a project and the systems surrounding it. At Autodesk University, Egnyte is showing how new capabilities feed the Context Layer with richer, industry-specific information to provide more accurate and impactful results across users, agents, and tools.
- Auto-classification and metadata extraction automatically identify document types and pull relevant information across AEC content, adding richer, industry-specific understanding to the Context Layer without manual tagging.
- AI Actions in Project Center surface relevant next steps directly where project work happens, so teams get work done without having to know what to ask AI.
- Task-based AEC agents in the Egnyte AI Marketplace give firms ready-to-use starting points for specific project jobs. Each can be used on its own, configured to a firm’s needs, or can be combined as building blocks for critical workflows.
- The Autodesk Forma Data Management AI Connector makes content in Autodesk accessible through Egnyte and passes Egnyte context back to Autodesk, helping users and agents work across systems rather than fragmented silos. In addition, webhooks keep information between Egnyte and Autodesk synced, while flexible folder mapping lets firms configure the integration to reflect how their projects are structured.
“AEC firms have project files and folders that span years, but have never been able to connect each project to the people working on it or the system around it,” said Rajesh Ram, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Egnyte. “That’s what the Context Layer is going to solve for them. Using organization-specific knowledge, AI now has a foundation to actually understand the AEC work, not just search through files. Our customers have been waiting for this, and it will change how they interact with AI.”
Availability
The Egnyte Context Layer and new AEC capabilities are available now. To learn more, visit egnyte.com or find Egnyte at Autodesk University at booth 4313 from September 15-17, 2026.
About Egnyte
Egnyte is a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, trusted by more than 23,000 customers to increase employee productivity, drive operational efficiencies, and secure mission-critical content. Egnyte's AI-powered platform empowers organizations to create, share, and protect their information at scale, with specialized solutions designed to meet the unique needs of organizations in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), financial services, life sciences, and other industries. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.
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